在这部佩特罗西利律师剧情/犯罪片中,托尼•佩特罗西利（TonyPetrocelli）是一位毕业于哈佛的意大利裔美国律师。他和他的妻子麦琪生活在一辆房车里以等待建新房。他雇用了当地的牛仔彼得•里特尔（PeteRitter）作为调查员。
全剧共2季45集。
Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.
